Poems of New York
by SCHMIDT, ELIZABETHFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-08-13
Publisher(s): Everyman's Library
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Summary
New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetryranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes's Harlem to James Merrill's Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices. Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer,Poems of New Yorkwill be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.
Author Biography
Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, a former poetry editor at the New York Times Book Review, is the editor of the acclaimed anthology Poems of New York and The Poets Laureate Anthology. She lives in New York City and currently teaches American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Walt Whitman (1819-1892) | |
| Mannahatta Broadway | |
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | |
| Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
| The House-Top: A Night Piece | |
| Amy Lowell (1874-1925) | |
| The Taxi Anticipation | |
| Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) | |
| Arrival at the Waldorf | |
| William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) | |
| The Great Figure | |
| Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) | |
| Union Square Broadway | |
| Marianne Moore (1887-1972) | |
| New York | |
| Claude Mckay (1889-1948) | |
| The Tropics in New York The City's Love A Song of the Moon | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
| Recuerdo 'If I should learn' | |
| Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) | |
| Observation | |
| E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) | |
| "Taxis toot whirl people moving" | |
| Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) | |
| "Walk about the subway station" | |
| Federico GarcÍa Lorca (1898-1936) | |
| Dawn | |
| Hart Crane (1899-1933) | |
| To Brooklyn Bridge The Harbor Dawn The Tunnel | |
| Langston Hughes (1902-1967) | |
| The Weary Blues Good Morning Harlem Juke Box Love Song Subway Rush Hour | |
| Helene Johnson (1906-1995) | |
| The Street to the Establishment | |
| W. H. Auden (1907-1973) | |
| Refugee Blues September 1, 1939 | |
| George Oppen (1908-1984) | |
| Pedestrian | |
| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) | |
| The Man-Moth Letter to N.Y. | |
| Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) | |
| Seventh Avenue | |
| May swenson (1913-1989) | |
| Staying at Ed's Place At the Museum of Modern Art | |
| Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) | |
| Future-Present | |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ) | |
| "The Pennycandystore beyond the El" | |
| Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) | |
| Dancers Exercising | |
| Grace Paley (1922- ) | |
| The Nature of This City Fear On Mother's Day | |
| Howard Moss (1922-1987) | |
| The Building The Roof Garden | |
| Denise Levertov (1923-1997) | |
| The Cabdriver's Smile | |
| James Schuyler (1923-1991) | |
| This Dark Apartment An East Window on Elizabeth Street March Here | |
| Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) | |
| Photograph from September 11 | |
| Kenneth Koch (1925- ) | |
| Girl and Baby Florist Sidewalk Pram Nineteen Seventy Something | |
| Gerald Stern (1925- ) | |
| 96 Vandam Let Me Please Look Into My Window | |
| Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) | |
| Steps Gamin | |
| James Merrill (1926-1995) | |
| An Urban Convalescence 164 East 72nd Street | |
| Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) | |
| I am a Victim of Telephone My Sad Self | |
| W. S. Merwin (1927- ) | |
| St. Vincent's | |
| Galway Kinnell (1927- ) | |
| Room of Return Running on Silk | |
| John Ashbery (1927- ) | |
| A Sendentary Existence So Many Lives | |
| Charles Tomlinson (1927- ) | |
| All Afternoon | |
| Philip Levine (1928- ) | |
| Get Up | |
| Richard Howard (1929- ) | |
| 209 Canal Among the Missing | |
| L. E. Sissman (1929-1976) | |
| Tears at Korvette's Visiting Chaos | |
| Adrienne Rich (1929- ) | |
| Upper Broadway | |
| Gregory Corso (1930-2001) | |
| Eastside Incidents The Whole Mess . . . Almost | |
| Derek Walcott (1930- ) | |
| The Bridge | |
| Amiri Baraka (1934- ) | |
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Excerpts
If I Should Learn
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
If I should learn, in some quite casual way,
That you were gone, not to return again--
Read from the back-page of a paper, say,
Held by a neighbor in a subway train,
How at the corner of this avenue
And such a street (so are the papers filled)
A hurrying man--who happened to be you--
At noon to-day had happened to be killed,
I should not cry aloud--I could not cry
Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place--
I should but watch the station lights rush by
With a more careful interest on my face,
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
If I should learn, in some quite casual way,
That you were gone, not to return again--
Read from the back-page of a paper, say,
Held by a neighbor in a subway train,
How at the corner of this avenue
And such a street (so are the papers filled)
A hurrying man--who happened to be you--
At noon to-day had happened to be killed,
I should not cry aloud--I could not cry
Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place--
I should but watch the station lights rush by
With a more careful interest on my face,
Or raise my eyes and read with greater care
Where to store furs and how to treat the hair.
Excerpted from Poems of New York
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